I used to be a very picky eater growing up, but in the nearly ten years since leaving the comforts of home, reality has of course shaped some new habits. From having the luxury of every whim & unreasonabl demand being fulfilled it has come down to mom's concern over food being reduced to anxious questions over the phone, leaving me to fend for myself; so much so that now if I don't get what I want, the most likely thing to happen is for someone to mutter "in any case would do her good to not eat for a few days" under their breath.
Neverthless there are still some foods, or food habits I fail to understand - either due to taste or any number of illogical reasons.
1. Liquorice or twizzlers: it's chewy, takes serious jaw muscle to eat and tastes like nothing nice. WHY would anyone eat this stuff?
2. french toast - the traditional way: ok so I'm gauche and I grew up eating my french toast like most Indians- salty, with ketchup even. I mean it makes sense doesn't it - it's egg and it's bread. Eggs & bread are eaten salty and with ketchup. So pray, why is bread dipped in egg & cooked, eaten with syrup? I don't get it. It grosses me out.
3. pineapple on pizza: yes I know it's Hawaiian pizza and Hawaii has lots of pineapples, but that doesn't mean they should put it on their pizza. Or whoever did it. That's like putting curry on cake and calling it Indian cake.
4. cereal with hot milk: An Indian habit again but this time I don't get it. I used to eat this as a kid, mostly because it was shoved down my throat at about 6 am, a time when I was too sleepy to protest. Hot milk makes the cereal soggy & as the milk is cooling down it forms an icky layer. Horrible.
5. cadbury's chocolate eclairs: it gets stuck all over your teeth, you spend more time picking it off than you did in eating it so it's not even worth all that effort by the end.
... I have more strange dislikes but 5 seems a good round number for now.
November 29, 2009
November 12, 2009
With friends like these.....
It was one of those particularly jinxed Friday nights - I was out partying with some of my friends (whose characters will be revealed through the post) and the series of events that ensued still gets talked about to this day; so much so that a picture from that night, posted on Facebook, inspired lots of comments that essentially replayed whatever happened & was amusing enough to post here.
**Names have been discretely changed. I should add that it was a picture of me in the pub we had gone to that night on which this commentary was happening. SK, Marvin & Jig are the friends who were with me. Tam-Tam (TT) is another friend, not present that night but an active FB-er**
SK: TT you should ask her about the other "interesting" events of that night.
**Names have been discretely changed. I should add that it was a picture of me in the pub we had gone to that night on which this commentary was happening. SK, Marvin & Jig are the friends who were with me. Tam-Tam (TT) is another friend, not present that night but an active FB-er**
SK: TT you should ask her about the other "interesting" events of that night.
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008 (Me): i was an innocent observer...
SK: and i was your protector
Marvin: SK u yellow chicken... u were busy counting currency notes and shitting in ur pants while HIDING behind 008 !!!
SK: shut up Mr. bare hand man killer
TT: wht in god's name happened??
Jig:
2. 008 finds drunk (skirtless) girl in toilet at pub (Julia is the manger here)
4. Marvin, 008 drop girl home (only after she has puked on my new rainbow shirt)
6. take rick to go home
7. Marvin, 008, I get into fight with the driver
8. driver attacks with rock, Marvin tries to kill with bare hand, I try to mediate, 008 innocent observer, SK hiding behind 008 counting money in his wallet to pay off the driver and go home...
9. Marvin, 008, SK, I start walking home, rick driver returns with cops. I explains situation to cops in marathi.cops go.
10. reach home, abuse each other outside house. bald, sex deprived, midget neighbour come to fight, abuse neighbour
Pts. 1, 3, 5, 11, 12, 13...drink!!
Marvin: u excelled in precis writing in school...didnt u ?? :D
TT: hahahahahahaha...oh faaaaak...wht an exciting time tht must have been...and the precis writing..well, commendable!!
TT: and why was she skirtless?!lol...
SK: **This comment doesn't pass the censor ratings**
008: btw TT this is in u'r fav place! Jig - correction. i did not abuse neighbour. i abused SK, neighbour thought i was abusing him. I might have abused neighbour AFTER that.
Marvin: we dont know why she was skirtless... but we do know next day she called up SK and abused him for stealing her wallet or something !
Jig: looks like sly SK was planning to bribe the rickshaw driver with her money!
SK: are u crazy ... she called to thank us ... and she only had my no cuz i had missed called her phone when we couldn't find it. get the facts right guys!
TT: no i know why, cuz SK stole her skirt. **yet more censored stuff**
oo8: SK stole her skirt AND her friend's abandoned drink. anything for free booze eh SK?
Marvin: Tsk tsk tsk ... Jig steals apples, SK is a kleptomaniac.... what is the world coming to ?
After this point the comments turned into a general volley match of random abuses and accusations which while entertaining enough are out of context to this post.
Stats have the final word on this - there were 47 comments in total! Anyone ever got into the Guinness Book for having the highest number of comments on a facebook picture?